Applications down 21% on myschooldc

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Anonymous wrote:I am friends w 3 SN teachers. All wanted to go back for their kids- yea teachers call their students their kids.

1 went back in the winter.

1 worked with her kids all summer because of school shutting in March

1 was told her kids would go to a non SN teacher and she would baby sit a cares classroom. She wanted to go back, volunteered (no kids and she was happy to go).

All three were pre vax.

But yes let’s trash teachers on a message board. Call your principal. I guess you aren’t going private as they can’t get in

My step daughter is SN. Her mom, dad, step dad and I all take a day to help her through her day. She is now vaccinated but not going back to school because the shift in schedule will be more hard on her. She will go back in September.

And before you go on about my SN step child - the four of us will be supporting her for life not until she can get into a decent college. Her special needs are no joke, nor are her medical issues.

Her brothers are behind where they would have been in person but yeah they can catch up. It will be fine.

Hard and exhausting but fine

The fact that you anecdotally know 3 SN teachers who went back doesn’t change the fact that the WTU literally went on strike to prevent SN/homeless/at risk/ ELL kids from going back. That’s not an anecdote about 3 anonymous teachers from an anonymous poster. It’s what the teachers Union in DC actually did publicly.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

Oh DCUM, where apologizing and trying to explain my POV is gaslighting

While you may have been sincere in your apology and earnest in your wish to present your POV (and regardless of whether any of us is using gaslighting correctly), can you not see that your comment about college to a parent whose child has regressed to the point of needing a self-contained classroom is at best crass and insensitive and at worst cruel?

Not PP but children don't go to self-contained solely based on academics. That's highly inappropriate and I am a self-contained teacher. This parent isn't giving full facts and really their child might have needed it before. Middle class and wealthy parents fight for the resource model even if it's not working the best for their child. Literally all the students I've had from privileged families their child was recommended for self-contained and they refused. Whoops, missed out on early intervention and are paying for it now. It's very sad but true, self-contained is pretty stigmatized.

I get many self-contained teachers in DCPS don't fight to get kids out but not all of are like that. I move at least 1 student back to gen ed every school year, even this pandemic year.

Sorry to the parent whose child might need self-contained but they can get out or you can refuse to put them there if they don't need it. Also FYI self-contained doesn't mean 'not on grade level,' I have several students 1-3 grade levels above.

jfc. do you think I don’t know that? I shouldn’t even be having to think about self-contained. things got this bad as a direct result of DL. Hoping my kid can pull out of the tailspin but there will not be that many options if he does not.

and I’ll tell you something - your posts here make me even more inclined to fight self contained, because of your cluelessness and toxicity. dcps’s finest. in fact you’ve posted so many details here I’m positive I could figure out who you are.

Like I care if you, 'found out who I am.' Are you 15? Make threats on an anon forum is so low class.

And everyone received DL at first, an SN child is not literally special. Please tell me what was false about my statement? You come on here acting as though your child is the only one in the world who had to face difficulty during this pandemic. Where is YOUR responsibility in all of this? The school yes should be ashamed, I feel bad for all the kids who can't do DL having to do it. But you cannot just blame them, if they are blamed for how they are handling the pandemic then so should you. Other SN parents got themselves a part time ABA therapist, tutor, nanny, therapist/psyc, whatever to help their child stay mentally healthy and as on track as possible.

Keep trying to gaslight teachers here suspicious of you. I am suspicious of any parent who says, 'my child school says my DC needs self-contained now,' most DCPS schools don't want that and it's a pain in the but and fairly difficult to prove. Thank you for laugh, now please advocate for your child and stop arguing with randoms online because they hurt your feelings.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure this has been covered, but the press release last week shows a 21% decline yoy in applications. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. DCPS enrollment looks like it has plummeted and will continue to do so. And the city has only itself to blame.

https://www.myschooldc.org/sites/default/files/dc/sites/myschooldc/page/attachments/Final_PRESS%20RELEASE%20SY21-22%20Lottery%20Results.pdf

I think the city wants this. Much cheaper to operate a city that is a playground for the single and childless than provide services for families.

They are certainly acting like it.

Attracting single, childless college graduates has been the District's strategy since Anthony Williams. And is the strategy employed by most major American cities - and for good reason. That said, universal, but nor compulsory, PK3/PK4 is about as family friendly you can get; all DCPL-owned libraries have been rebuilt/in planning, schools and parks rebuilt. I feel much more "supported" by the District (parent of 2) than my friends will kids in the suburbs and other area.

Really? I live in Falls Church City and they redid 3 parks in 2 years, the library, high school and we're back in school full time. Pretty sure DC falls very short of that.

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Anonymous wrote:I am friends w 3 SN teachers. All wanted to go back for their kids- yea teachers call their students their kids.

1 went back in the winter.

1 worked with her kids all summer because of school shutting in March

1 was told her kids would go to a non SN teacher and she would baby sit a cares classroom. She wanted to go back, volunteered (no kids and she was happy to go).

All three were pre vax.

But yes let’s trash teachers on a message board. Call your principal. I guess you aren’t going private as they can’t get in

My step daughter is SN. Her mom, dad, step dad and I all take a day to help her through her day. She is now vaccinated but not going back to school because the shift in schedule will be more hard on her. She will go back in September.

And before you go on about my SN step child - the four of us will be supporting her for life not until she can get into a decent college. Her special needs are no joke, nor are her medical issues.

Her brothers are behind where they would have been in person but yeah they can catch up. It will be fine.

Hard and exhausting but fine

The fact that you anecdotally know 3 SN teachers who went back doesn’t change the fact that the WTU literally went on strike to prevent SN/homeless/at risk/ ELL kids from going back. That’s not an anecdote about 3 anonymous teachers from an anonymous poster. It’s what the teachers Union in DC actually did publicly.

1. When did they strike? Wow a sickout that had low participation? And PS teacher strikes are happening ALL OVER THE NATION.
2. Funny those are the families who wanted DL, except for the white SN families because you...well let me be quiet.
3. If you hate the WTU...I mean no one is preventing you for exiting DCPS and moving to a strongly red state, more of their schools are open.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

Oh DCUM, where apologizing and trying to explain my POV is gaslighting

While you may have been sincere in your apology and earnest in your wish to present your POV (and regardless of whether any of us is using gaslighting correctly), can you not see that your comment about college to a parent whose child has regressed to the point of needing a self-contained classroom is at best crass and insensitive and at worst cruel?

Not PP but children don't go to self-contained solely based on academics. That's highly inappropriate and I am a self-contained teacher. This parent isn't giving full facts and really their child might have needed it before. Middle class and wealthy parents fight for the resource model even if it's not working the best for their child. Literally all the students I've had from privileged families their child was recommended for self-contained and they refused. Whoops, missed out on early intervention and are paying for it now. It's very sad but true, self-contained is pretty stigmatized.

I get many self-contained teachers in DCPS don't fight to get kids out but not all of are like that. I move at least 1 student back to gen ed every school year, even this pandemic year.

Sorry to the parent whose child might need self-contained but they can get out or you can refuse to put them there if they don't need it. Also FYI self-contained doesn't mean 'not on grade level,' I have several students 1-3 grade levels above.

jfc. do you think I don’t know that? I shouldn’t even be having to think about self-contained. things got this bad as a direct result of DL. Hoping my kid can pull out of the tailspin but there will not be that many options if he does not.

and I’ll tell you something - your posts here make me even more inclined to fight self contained, because of your cluelessness and toxicity. dcps’s finest. in fact you’ve posted so many details here I’m positive I could figure out who you are.

Like I care if you, 'found out who I am.' Are you 15? Make threats on an anon forum is so low class.

And everyone received DL at first, an SN child is not literally special. Please tell me what was false about my statement? You come on here acting as though your child is the only one in the world who had to face difficulty during this pandemic. Where is YOUR responsibility in all of this? The school yes should be ashamed, I feel bad for all the kids who can't do DL having to do it. But you cannot just blame them, if they are blamed for how they are handling the pandemic then so should you. Other SN parents got themselves a part time ABA therapist, tutor, nanny, therapist/psyc, whatever to help their child stay mentally healthy and as on track as possible.

Keep trying to gaslight teachers here suspicious of you. I am suspicious of any parent who says, 'my child school says my DC needs self-contained now,' most DCPS schools don't want that and it's a pain in the but and fairly difficult to prove. Thank you for laugh, now please advocate for your child and stop arguing with randoms online because they hurt your feelings.

wow. you keep on getting more and more terrible. it’s really bad.

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Anonymous wrote:I am friends w 3 SN teachers. All wanted to go back for their kids- yea teachers call their students their kids.

1 went back in the winter.

1 worked with her kids all summer because of school shutting in March

1 was told her kids would go to a non SN teacher and she would baby sit a cares classroom. She wanted to go back, volunteered (no kids and she was happy to go).

All three were pre vax.

But yes let’s trash teachers on a message board. Call your principal. I guess you aren’t going private as they can’t get in

My step daughter is SN. Her mom, dad, step dad and I all take a day to help her through her day. She is now vaccinated but not going back to school because the shift in schedule will be more hard on her. She will go back in September.

And before you go on about my SN step child - the four of us will be supporting her for life not until she can get into a decent college. Her special needs are no joke, nor are her medical issues.

Her brothers are behind where they would have been in person but yeah they can catch up. It will be fine.

Hard and exhausting but fine

The fact that you anecdotally know 3 SN teachers who went back doesn’t change the fact that the WTU literally went on strike to prevent SN/homeless/at risk/ ELL kids from going back. That’s not an anecdote about 3 anonymous teachers from an anonymous poster. It’s what the teachers Union in DC actually did publicly.

1. When did they strike? Wow a sickout that had low participation? And PS teacher strikes are happening ALL OVER THE NATION.
2. Funny those are the families who wanted DL, except for the white SN families because you...well let me be quiet.
3. If you hate the WTU...I mean no one is preventing you for exiting DCPS and moving to a strongly red state, more of their schools are open.

Two of those teachers are charter teachers so not a member of WTU

The other one quit DCPS all together so hurrah you win. You SN child can now have someone less qualified than my friend to babysit your child because that’s what you really want or they be in an over crowded classroom and not getting enough attention.

But you got to get your karen out on an anon message board.

Btw one of those charter sn teachers is applying for DCPS jobs. She’s worked privates, charters and think DCPS has the most to offer.

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Anonymous wrote:I am friends w 3 SN teachers. All wanted to go back for their kids- yea teachers call their students their kids.

1 went back in the winter.

1 worked with her kids all summer because of school shutting in March

1 was told her kids would go to a non SN teacher and she would baby sit a cares classroom. She wanted to go back, volunteered (no kids and she was happy to go).

All three were pre vax.

But yes let’s trash teachers on a message board. Call your principal. I guess you aren’t going private as they can’t get in

My step daughter is SN. Her mom, dad, step dad and I all take a day to help her through her day. She is now vaccinated but not going back to school because the shift in schedule will be more hard on her. She will go back in September.

And before you go on about my SN step child - the four of us will be supporting her for life not until she can get into a decent college. Her special needs are no joke, nor are her medical issues.

Her brothers are behind where they would have been in person but yeah they can catch up. It will be fine.

Hard and exhausting but fine

The fact that you anecdotally know 3 SN teachers who went back doesn’t change the fact that the WTU literally went on strike to prevent SN/homeless/at risk/ ELL kids from going back. That’s not an anecdote about 3 anonymous teachers from an anonymous poster. It’s what the teachers Union in DC actually did publicly.

1. When did they strike? Wow a sickout that had low participation? And PS teacher strikes are happening ALL OVER THE NATION.
2. Funny those are the families who wanted DL, except for the white SN families because you...well let me be quiet.
3. If you hate the WTU...I mean no one is preventing you for exiting DCPS and moving to a strongly red state, more of their schools are open.

Two of those teachers are charter teachers so not a member of WTU

The other one quit DCPS all together so hurrah you win. You SN child can now have someone less qualified than my friend to babysit your child because that’s what you really want or they be in an over crowded classroom and not getting enough attention.

But you got to get your karen out on an anon message board.

Btw one of those charter sn teachers is applying for DCPS jobs. She’s worked privates, charters and think DCPS has the most to offer.

Not white.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

Oh DCUM, where apologizing and trying to explain my POV is gaslighting

While you may have been sincere in your apology and earnest in your wish to present your POV (and regardless of whether any of us is using gaslighting correctly), can you not see that your comment about college to a parent whose child has regressed to the point of needing a self-contained classroom is at best crass and insensitive and at worst cruel?

Not PP but children don't go to self-contained solely based on academics. That's highly inappropriate and I am a self-contained teacher. This parent isn't giving full facts and really their child might have needed it before. Middle class and wealthy parents fight for the resource model even if it's not working the best for their child. Literally all the students I've had from privileged families their child was recommended for self-contained and they refused. Whoops, missed out on early intervention and are paying for it now. It's very sad but true, self-contained is pretty stigmatized.

I get many self-contained teachers in DCPS don't fight to get kids out but not all of are like that. I move at least 1 student back to gen ed every school year, even this pandemic year.

Sorry to the parent whose child might need self-contained but they can get out or you can refuse to put them there if they don't need it. Also FYI self-contained doesn't mean 'not on grade level,' I have several students 1-3 grade levels above.

jfc. do you think I don’t know that? I shouldn’t even be having to think about self-contained. things got this bad as a direct result of DL. Hoping my kid can pull out of the tailspin but there will not be that many options if he does not.

and I’ll tell you something - your posts here make me even more inclined to fight self contained, because of your cluelessness and toxicity. dcps’s finest. in fact you’ve posted so many details here I’m positive I could figure out who you are.

Like I care if you, 'found out who I am.' Are you 15? Make threats on an anon forum is so low class.

And everyone received DL at first, an SN child is not literally special. Please tell me what was false about my statement? You come on here acting as though your child is the only one in the world who had to face difficulty during this pandemic. Where is YOUR responsibility in all of this? The school yes should be ashamed, I feel bad for all the kids who can't do DL having to do it. But you cannot just blame them, if they are blamed for how they are handling the pandemic then so should you. Other SN parents got themselves a part time ABA therapist, tutor, nanny, therapist/psyc, whatever to help their child stay mentally healthy and as on track as possible.

Keep trying to gaslight teachers here suspicious of you. I am suspicious of any parent who says, 'my child school says my DC needs self-contained now,' most DCPS schools don't want that and it's a pain in the but and fairly difficult to prove. Thank you for laugh, now please advocate for your child and stop arguing with randoms online because they hurt your feelings.

wow. you keep on getting more and more terrible. it’s really bad.

Luckily your opinion is worth less than a horse’s crap to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

Oh DCUM, where apologizing and trying to explain my POV is gaslighting

While you may have been sincere in your apology and earnest in your wish to present your POV (and regardless of whether any of us is using gaslighting correctly), can you not see that your comment about college to a parent whose child has regressed to the point of needing a self-contained classroom is at best crass and insensitive and at worst cruel?

Not PP but children don't go to self-contained solely based on academics. That's highly inappropriate and I am a self-contained teacher. This parent isn't giving full facts and really their child might have needed it before. Middle class and wealthy parents fight for the resource model even if it's not working the best for their child. Literally all the students I've had from privileged families their child was recommended for self-contained and they refused. Whoops, missed out on early intervention and are paying for it now. It's very sad but true, self-contained is pretty stigmatized.

I get many self-contained teachers in DCPS don't fight to get kids out but not all of are like that. I move at least 1 student back to gen ed every school year, even this pandemic year.

Sorry to the parent whose child might need self-contained but they can get out or you can refuse to put them there if they don't need it. Also FYI self-contained doesn't mean 'not on grade level,' I have several students 1-3 grade levels above.

jfc. do you think I don’t know that? I shouldn’t even be having to think about self-contained. things got this bad as a direct result of DL. Hoping my kid can pull out of the tailspin but there will not be that many options if he does not.

You don’t think your kid is in a tailspin because of you? You are the constant here. Maybe you are ina tailspin and it’s easier to lash out on teachers here than do self reflection

My kid was in a tailspin too. I had to reevaluate how I did DL. I needed to make more structure to the day, no devices during the long breaks, more devices on Wednesday. Make my work day longer to take breaks and do lunch w the kid. Dad took the kid for a walk for the trip to school for some fresh air - kid stayed in pjs w a coat. Stopped tv and all devices at family dinner - husband cooks. Dinners were shorter.

Bedtime gets me agitated w my kid. Too tedious so dad does that and I clean the kitchen.

Before winging it all of us. Doing what we felt like - like it was a vacation w work and school.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure this has been covered, but the press release last week shows a 21% decline yoy in applications. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. DCPS enrollment looks like it has plummeted and will continue to do so. And the city has only itself to blame.

https://www.myschooldc.org/sites/default/files/dc/sites/myschooldc/page/attachments/Final_PRESS%20RELEASE%20SY21-22%20Lottery%20Results.pdf

I think the city wants this. Much cheaper to operate a city that is a playground for the single and childless than provide services for families.

They are certainly acting like it.

Attracting single, childless college graduates has been the District's strategy since Anthony Williams. And is the strategy employed by most major American cities - and for good reason. That said, universal, but nor compulsory, PK3/PK4 is about as family friendly you can get; all DCPL-owned libraries have been rebuilt/in planning, schools and parks rebuilt. I feel much more "supported" by the District (parent of 2) than my friends will kids in the suburbs and other area.

Really? I live in Falls Church City and they redid 3 parks in 2 years, the library, high school and we're back in school full time. Pretty sure DC falls very short of that.

3 parks that’s cute. We have 30 all over the city. Amazing libraries acting like Amazon w pick up now. And every redone school is light years ahead of falls church. Our museums are also better.

But you have a backyard and 2/3 more space than what I pay for, longer commute to the city of you work here, etc. kids can leave bikes on front lawns.

Trade offs are everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I am friends w 3 SN teachers. All wanted to go back for their kids- yea teachers call their students their kids.

1 went back in the winter.

1 worked with her kids all summer because of school shutting in March

1 was told her kids would go to a non SN teacher and she would baby sit a cares classroom. She wanted to go back, volunteered (no kids and she was happy to go).

All three were pre vax.

But yes let’s trash teachers on a message board. Call your principal. I guess you aren’t going private as they can’t get in

My step daughter is SN. Her mom, dad, step dad and I all take a day to help her through her day. She is now vaccinated but not going back to school because the shift in schedule will be more hard on her. She will go back in September.

And before you go on about my SN step child - the four of us will be supporting her for life not until she can get into a decent college. Her special needs are no joke, nor are her medical issues.

Her brothers are behind where they would have been in person but yeah they can catch up. It will be fine.

Hard and exhausting but fine

The fact that you anecdotally know 3 SN teachers who went back doesn’t change the fact that the WTU literally went on strike to prevent SN/homeless/at risk/ ELL kids from going back. That’s not an anecdote about 3 anonymous teachers from an anonymous poster. It’s what the teachers Union in DC actually did publicly.

Btw no one believes you care about the ell and homeless kids. But nice touch.

Go start a thread and letter writing campaign to have the budget address that and then talk toe about wtu screwed those kids over. They are the only ones I hear who talk about it

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There are two active threads on this forum asking for info on special education services in DC. I hope those OPs are reading this thread so they know what they are getting into.

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Anonymous wrote:There are two active threads on this forum asking for info on special education services in DC. I hope those OPs are reading this thread so they know what they are getting into.

One thread the OP is insulted that someone thinks their kid needs an iep even though she is asking about sped services. She has got her own problems. So really there is one active thread.

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Anonymous wrote:There are two active threads on this forum asking for info on special education services in DC. I hope those OPs are reading this thread so they know what they are getting into.

One thread the OP is insulted that someone thinks their kid needs an iep even though she is asking about sped services. She has got her own problems. So really there is one active thread.

And there’s you. None of these are going to give parents new to DCPS and the special ed world any confidence that their child will be well-served.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

Oh DCUM, where apologizing and trying to explain my POV is gaslighting

While you may have been sincere in your apology and earnest in your wish to present your POV (and regardless of whether any of us is using gaslighting correctly), can you not see that your comment about college to a parent whose child has regressed to the point of needing a self-contained classroom is at best crass and insensitive and at worst cruel?

Not PP but children don't go to self-contained solely based on academics. That's highly inappropriate and I am a self-contained teacher. This parent isn't giving full facts and really their child might have needed it before. Middle class and wealthy parents fight for the resource model even if it's not working the best for their child. Literally all the students I've had from privileged families their child was recommended for self-contained and they refused. Whoops, missed out on early intervention and are paying for it now. It's very sad but true, self-contained is pretty stigmatized.

I get many self-contained teachers in DCPS don't fight to get kids out but not all of are like that. I move at least 1 student back to gen ed every school year, even this pandemic year.

Sorry to the parent whose child might need self-contained but they can get out or you can refuse to put them there if they don't need it. Also FYI self-contained doesn't mean 'not on grade level,' I have several students 1-3 grade levels above.

jfc. do you think I don’t know that? I shouldn’t even be having to think about self-contained. things got this bad as a direct result of DL. Hoping my kid can pull out of the tailspin but there will not be that many options if he does not.

You don’t think your kid is in a tailspin because of you? You are the constant here. Maybe you are ina tailspin and it’s easier to lash out on teachers here than do self reflection

My kid was in a tailspin too. I had to reevaluate how I did DL. I needed to make more structure to the day, no devices during the long breaks, more devices on Wednesday. Make my work day longer to take breaks and do lunch w the kid. Dad took the kid for a walk for the trip to school for some fresh air - kid stayed in pjs w a coat. Stopped tv and all devices at family dinner - husband cooks. Dinners were shorter.

Bedtime gets me agitated w my kid. Too tedious so dad does that and I clean the kitchen.

Before winging it all of us. Doing what we felt like - like it was a vacation w work and school.

he’s in a tailspin because he has autism and adhd and was removed from the school social environment for an entire year. but yeah tell SN parents again thay it’s all their fault. great way to get support for teachers.